Sunday Sermonette: Droning on

 Side note: Saying that Jews should be expelled from the country is hate speech. I ' m not gratuitously labeling what I don ' t agree with. Nick Fuentes is a Nazi.Chapter 25 continues with the interminable recitation of meaningless names, in this case of musicians. While the names are pointless, we can divine a little bit about Judean music, but it really is just a little. We don ' t know when the Chroniclers source material for this was written, but when Chronicles was written, probably in the mid 6th Century BCE, the instruments named here were evidently still characteristic. We don ' t know what other role, if any, music may have played in the society, but these musicians are assigned to accompany " the ministry of prophesying, " which I presume is what we would call a sermon, although perhaps the words were, at least sometimes. See verse 3, "Jeduthun, who prophesied, using the harp in thanking and praising theLord. " Of course, he could have used the harp to accompany spoken words. It appears there was ensemble performance, as per verse 6: "All these men were under the supervision of their father for the music of the temple of theLord, with cymbals, lyres and harps. " (The KJV translates " psaltery " rather than " harp. " A psaltery is essentially a fretless guitar, but it probably had not been invented at this time. Harp is more likely.)  Elsewhere in the Bible the tambour is mentioned, though not here. This chapter does not name any specialists in singing...
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